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v. To reduce to a pure state; purify.

v. To remove by purifying.

v. To free from coarse, unsuitable, or immoral characteristics: refined his manners; refined her speaking style.

verb-intransitive. To become free of impurities.

verb-intransitive. To acquire polish or elegance.

verb-intransitive. To use precise distinctions and subtlety in thought or speech.

v. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar.

v. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings.

v. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

v. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

v. To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.

v. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate

v. To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish.

verb-intransitive. To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

verb-intransitive. To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

verb-intransitive. To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

To bring or reduce to a pure state; free from impurities; free from sediment; defecate; clarify; fine: as, to refine liquor, sugar, or petroleum.

In metallurgy, to bring into a condition of purity as complete as the nature of the ore treated will allow.

To purify from what is gross, coarse, debasing, low, vulgar, inelegant, rude, clownish, and the like; make elegant; raise or educate, as the taste; give culture to; polish: as, to refine the manners, taste, language, style, intellect, or moral feelings.

To become pure; be cleared of feculent matter.

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or in anything that constitutes excellence.

To exhibit nicety or subtlety in thought or language, especially excessive nicety.

v. treat or prepare so as to put in a usable condition

v. make more complex, intricate, or richer

v. improve or perfect by pruning or polishing

v. reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; separate from extraneous matter or cleanse from impurities

v. make more precise or increase the discriminatory powers of

v. attenuate or reduce in vigor, strength, or validity by polishing or purifying

"Three days ago I would have been certain that people in the media knew what the word refine means."

refined    refines    refining   

process    treat    purify    sublimate    distill    make pure    change    modify    alter    attenuate   

purify    clear    refined madder   

refinery    refinement    refiner   

clarify    purify    ennoble    polish    hair-split    wiredraw    subtilize   

Aline    Cline    Combine    Dine    Heine    Jain    Klein    Kline    Quine    Rhine   

intelligent    pure    elegant    thoughtful    sensitive